mullety

English

Etymology 1

From mullet (“haircut”) +‎ -y.

Adjective

mullety (not comparable)

Resembling a mullet (haircut); mullet-like (also figuratively), short or tame in the front and long or wilder in the back.
- 2016 May 3, Harriet Reuter Hapgood, The Square Root of Summer, Roaring Brook Press, →ISBN, page 94:
  Her hair is short and mullety, the same as mine when I was little—like Ned, she's totally out of step with fashion, but somehow still cool. Papa half in and half out of every photo, Grey with flowers braided through his plaits.
- 2016 July 19, Matthew Sibiga, Don Wininger, The Complete Trailer Park Boys: How to Enjoy the Trailer Park Boys When the Cable is Out, Random House Canada, →ISBN:
  In the grooming department, there's no competition: Trevor's mullety mop of hair cannot hope to compete with this breed, nor can Cory's Willie Nelson braids. As for brains, we already know the answer to this one.
- 2018 February 1, Wendy Holden, Last of the Summer Moët: A sparkling rom-com that will make you laugh out loud, Head of Zeus Ltd, →ISBN:
  More people who would need to put their phones away, Kiki thought, watching the husbands, with their blue shirts and slightly mullety hair, frowning into their screens. Wonky and Willow were shrieking with Anna Goblemova, the young, […]
- 2020 September 29, Robert Galbraith, The Cormoran Strike Novels, Books 1–4: (The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, Lethal White), Mulholland Books, →ISBN:
  ... he found himself looking into the eyes of ten-year-old Charlie Bristow, chubby-faced, with his slightly mullety haircut: frozen forever in the eighties, his school shirt with its long pointed collar, and the huge knot in his tie.
- 2022 January 21, Heather Hansman, Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 99:
  year, so scientists only have one shot at collecting data on fish behavior, and it takes multiple years to see any ... The Vernal headquarters of Fish and Wildlife is a mullety block of beige government cubicles with an unruly garage […]

Etymology 2

From mullet (“heraldic star”) +‎ -y.

Alternative forms

mulletty

Adjective

mullety (not comparable)

Starry, strewn with mullets (heraldic stars). (Also figuratively.)
- 1996, Richard Alan Edwards, A Long Knight's Journey Into Day: a book of poems, Rich Edwards, page 28:
  Aurora the Knight Awakes
  Within a dream the night a crescent smiles, / As palely seen a sleeping knight slow turns / Who restless, battles care of many miles / While mullety his sable shield still burns. / Aurora's hands reach lightly out to […]
- 2000, L'identità genealogica e araldica: fonti, metodologie, interdisciplinarità, prospettive : atti del XXIII Congresso internazionale di scienze genealogica e araldica, Torino, Archivio di Stato, 21-26 settembre 1998:
  ... an interestingly complex design of Or a fillet cross Sable between a plow, a pick and shovel in saltire, an arm wielding a hammer, and an anchor fouled, all Proper, on an inescutcheon paly Gules and Argent a chief Azure mullety […]
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- 2013 December 10, Padgett Powell, Edisto and Edisto Revisited, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
  His eyes were mullety. “This place is just a juke joint now, son. In my day, it was the biggest whorehouse-casino-bootleg operation we knew of. Do you know what a whorehouse is?” “Well, I know what one is. I don't know what you do, […]"